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TIL that door knobs made out of brass automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours through the oligodynamic effect

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1aG6V TIL that the punishment for adultery in Classical Athens was Rhaphanidosis, the act of inserting a radish into the anus of the wife's lover.
78eJL TIL there is a "healing" spring in South Carolina which is officially listed as being owned by God. Previous property owner L.P. Boylston, who died in 1944, left the property to "Almighty God" in his will so that the water would always be freely available to drink. It is now known as God's Acre.
Rdaw TIL That 183 years ago today, Joseph Smith Jr, founder of LDS, was tar and feathered for allegedly being inappropriate with a 15 year old girl.
PYKJV TIL there was a natural nuclear reactor in present-day Gabon that produced about 100kw of energy 2 billion years ago, running for thousands of years. This is the only known example of naturally occurring nuclear fission.
BrpLy TIL that the box jellyfish has 24 eyes, two of which are capable of seeing color, and four parallel information processing areas that act in competition. This makes it one of the few creatures to have a 360-degree view of its environment.